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- Jonathan Goldstein
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- Location: Montreal, Canada
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- "The Olfactograph"
- Summary: Conceptual artist Jamie O'Shea discovered a way to record smells, and paired them with something special.
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Review of The Olfactograph
Jonathan Goldstein
Posted on August 26, 2004 at 06:12 AM
Jamie O’Shea’s Olfactograph turns objects into smells. The sense of smell is so intimately connected to memory, that it’s like he is creating a potion that acts as a nexus to the past. He has even distilled the scent of a bath toy down to a liquid. For the most part, the sound in the piece interacts nicely with O’Shea’s voice, creating a rather impressionistic, cinematic effect. What I would have enjoyed is more about how he became so obsessed with smell that he decided to create such an oddity. It would have given the whole thing a more personal dimension. Still, an audio piece about smell does show moxy. This could fit nicely in to a magazine show.